Folding-seat settee



(NoModeL) H. J. HARWOOD.

FOLDING SEAT SETTEE.

No. 315,618. Patented Apr. 14 1885.

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FOLDING-SEAT SETTEE.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,618, dated April 14-, 1885.

Application filed August 18,1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERBERT J osnrn HAR- WOOD, of Littleton, in the county of Middlesex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Folding-Seat Settees; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a rear elevation, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of a folding duplex chair or settee provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims as presented. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section, on an enlarged scale, of the plate G and portions of the bars F and one of the posts, B, as hereinafter described, connected to such plate, such figure showing the connecting screw bolt and nut.

In public halls, theaters, or various other places wherein folding-seat settees are used, it often becomes desirable to have them or their seats disposed in curved rather than in straight ranges, which cannot be effected when the back posts of the set-tees are connected by rigid bars extending from the posts of one seat to that or those of the others, especially when each two next contiguous seats have but three back and arm supporting posts, one of which extends down between the three.

In my improved set-tee the back bars to each seat are separate from those of the next seat, and are connected to them by elastic or flexile connections, which in turn at their middles are connected to the posts by screw.

bolts and nuts, such admitting of the back bars of one seat being changeda little in their angular positions relatively to those of the next seat or seats, in order for the various seats to be disposed either in a straight or a curved range. Furthermore, the pair of back bars of each seat are grooved along their next contiguous edges to receive between them a series of narrow slats or boards, with such bars to aid in forming the back, such slats being placed edge to edge and inserted endwise in the grooves, and serving, with the pair of back bars, to form avery strong and durable chair-back.

In the drawings, the seats of the settee are shown. at A A as having between them a flat post, B, provided, as shown, with an arm, 0. There are three of such posts to the two seats, and each has fixed to it at its lower end a basebar, D, which, arranged with it and extending from it, as represented ,sorves to connect it to a door by screws going down through the projecting parts a a. and screwed into such floor. Each seat is pivoted to its posts, so as to be capable of either being turned down for use by a sitter or up into a position as shown in dotted lines at b in Fig. 3. \Vhen turned down, the seat at its rear part bears against the lower edge of the lower back bar, E, or suitable elastic bunters, d, proj ectin g therefrom. The two back bars, E and F, in rear of each seat are separate from those of the next seat, each bar being connected to that next in line or range with it by a thin plate, G, of metal or some proper material having the necessary strength or elasticity or flexibility. This plate'extends across the joint between the two bars in range, is secured to them by screws e e, and is fastened to the next adjacent post byascrew-bolt, f, and nut 9. (See Fig. 4.) At the joint the bars are beveled a little at their ends, or, in other words, have such ends a short distance apart or making a slight1yacute angle to each other, whose vertex is at or near the rear faces of the bars. At or near their other ends the bars are bolted or otherwise suitably connected to the end posts of the settee. The beveling of the ends of the said bars is to allow the bars to be moved inwardly without obstruction from the bolt extending between them and through the next contiguous post and the flexile connection uniting the said bar. The back bars, E F, of each pair are grooved along their next contiguous edges to receive the end portions of a series of slats or narrow boards, R, disposed near together, or edge to edge, and aiding, with the said pair of bars, to form the back H for the seat in front of them.

I would remark that instead of the settee being made, as described,with two seats only, it in practice is generally to have several of them.

My settec differs materially from that shown in the United States Patent No. 190,169,which has no arm-rest-supporting posts extending above and between the seats, as does my settee, 2. The folding seats pivoted'to the partsbeand consequently no back bars extending be-r tween which they are arranged, and having I 5 tween such posts. I the post between each two next contlguons I claim, in a settee essentially as described seats extended up to the back bars thereof,

1. The back bars connecting the sustaining separate from each other, and connected by posts of each seat separate from the back bars fiexile connections fastened at their mlddles of the next contiguousseat,in combination with to the said post, and at or near their. ends to 20 one of'such posts extended up to the back bars the said back bars, all being substantially as of thetwo seats, and with fiexile or elastic conset forth.

' IO nections uniting the back bars of the two seats, HERBERT JOSEPH HARWOOD.

and fastened at their middles to the interrne- Witnesses: I diate post by screw bolts and nuts, all being R. H. EDDY,

' substantially as set forth; E. B. PRATT. 

